let Clerodendron; a name which is correctly bestowed, provided the 
present plant and that figured in the Botanical Register, t. 649, be 
identical with the plant described by J acquin, under the name Volka- 
meria Kempferi, in his Icones Plantarum rariorum. Vol. III, t. 500: 
All the most eminent authorities consider them identical, and especi- 
ally Dr. Robert Brown admits the Volkameria Kempferi as a syno- 
nyme of Clerodendron squamatum, in the 2nd Edit. of the Hortus 
Kewensis, Vol. 4, p- 63; and from a careful inspection of the plate of 
Jacquin with that in the Botanical Register we are satisfied of their 
identity with our present plant. 
We feel regret whenever it is necessary to fill our pages with discus- 
sions about species and their synonymes, but it is a duty we owe the 
science we have attempted to promote by the publication of The Bota- 
nist, and we must discharge that duty when required. Although this 
plant has been known in Britain for nearly fifty years, it has been re- 
cently passed off as a new species and designated Clerodendron Speci- 
osissimum. This may have resulted from ignorance of its being already 
in the country, and of its having been described under the name of 
Clerodendron Squamatum, a name which cannot be disturbed. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CULTURE. This plant was intro- 
duced into Britain in 1790, by Sir Joseph Banks, but has obtained 
additional attention lately on account of young plants of it having been 
received from the continent into two or three English nurseries, where 
it was not known. The individual plant from which our drawing was 
taken, was obligingly sent to us from the collection of J. Jarrett, Esq. 
of Camerton House, near Bath. Mr. Robert Abbot, the gardener, at 
Camerton House, not only displays good feeling in the zeal of his pro- 
fession, but he gives real information, to which we are happy in being 
able to give circulation. He says, “I hope that the Clerodendron will 
soon be in every stove in the country; indeed it will be the proprietor’s 
fault if it be not, for assuredly it will soon be a very cheap plant, as it 
strikes so freely from cuttings; indeed, a single leaf, with a bud at the 
base, put into a pot of sand, under a bell-glass, will in a few days make 
a plant, in the same manner as Gloxinias, Gesnerias, &c.” 
Derivation or THE Names. 
CLERODENDRON, from KAnpoc, CLEROS, accident, the properties being so vari- 
able that one species is useful, while others are hurtful, so that the result seems 
like chance or lot, devdpov DENDRON, a tree; Squamatum, scaly, from sqama a 
scale, certain scales, being found on the under surface of the leaves. 
SynonymMes, 
CLERODENDRON sqvamatum, Vahl symbole Botanice, Pars Secunda, p. 74: 
Willdenow, Species Plantarum, Vol. TI, p. 387. Botanical Register, 649, 
Sprengel, Species Plantarum, Vol. Il, p. 759, . 
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